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The 19th Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
May 4 – 8, 2016

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New Releases Cine Las Americas presents a selection of nineteen narrative and documentary features by the finest emerging and established filmmakers to audiences in Central Texas. This year’s selections represent seventeen countries’ participation in production and co-production of the films, and highlight a diversity of themes, genres and styles characteristic of contemporary national and international cinema trends.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Allende mi abuelo Allende	Beyond My Grandfather Allende	Marcia Tambutti Allende	Chile/Mexico	100 min
Cómo ganar enemigos	How to Win Enemies	Gabriel Lichtmann	Argentina	78 min
Desde Allá	From Afar	Lorenzo Vigas	Venezuela/Mexico	93 min
Embarazados	We Are Pregnant	Juana Macías	Spain	103 min
Ixcanul	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala/France	91 min
La memoria del agua	The Memory of Water	Matías Bize	Chile/Spain/Argentina/Germany	88 min
La obra del siglo	The Project of the Century	Carlos M. Quintela	Cuba/Argentina/Germany/Switzerland	100 min
Las Plantas	Plants	Roberto Doveris	Chile	93 min
Le Dep	Le Dep	Sonia Boileau	Canada	75 min
Made in Bangkok	Made in Bangkok	Flavio Florencio	Mexico/Germany	75 min
Magallanes	Magallanes	Salvador del Solar	Peru/Argentina/Spain	109 min
Mekko	Mekko	Sterlin Harjo	USA	84 min
Prometo um Dia Deixar Essa Cidade	I Swear I’ll Leave This Town	Daniel Aragão	Brazil	90 min
Siembra	Siembra	Angela Osorio, Santiago Lozano	Colombia	83 min
Te prometo anarquía	I Promise You Anarchy	Julio Hernández Cordón	Mexico/Germany	88 min
The Grandfather of all Treaties	The Grandfather of all Treaties	Candace Maracle	Canada	57 min
The Propaganda Game	The Propaganda Game	Alvaro Longoria	Spain	98 min
Una noche sin luna	A Moonless Night	Germán Tejeira	Uruguay/Argentina	81 min
Viaje	Viaje	Paz Fábrega	Costa Rica	71 min
Narrative Feature Competition Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five films from emerging and promising talent, including selections from all over the Americas in a variety of genres and form. The works screened in this category are eligible for both a jury award and an audience award for Best Narrative Feature.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Amores Urbanos	Restless Love	Vera Egito	Brazil	95 min
H.O.M.E.	H.O.M.E.	Daniel Maldonado	USA	73 min
La extinción de los dinosaurios	The Extinction of the Dinosaurs	Luis Ayhllón	Mexico	98 min
Rosa Chumbe	Rosa Chumbe	Jonatan Relayze Chiang	Peru	73 min
Tan distintos	An Ocean Between Us	Pablo Arturo Suárez	Ecuador	90 min
Documentary Feature Competition Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five documentaries on a wide variety of topics, representing diversity in audio design, narrative style, and formal technique, with the common thread of including themes and points of view that are often underrepresented in popular media. The works screened in this category are eligible for both a jury award and an audience award for Best Documentary Feature.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Juanicas	Juanicas	Karina García Casanova	Canada/Mexico	78 min
Los habitantes de la casa del diablo	The Squatters of the Devil’s House	Iván Reina Ortiz	Colombia	87 min
Playing Lecuona	Playing Lecuona	Pavel Giroud, JuanMa Villa Betancort	Spain/Colombia	110 min
Tú y yo	You and Me	Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada	Dominican Republic	87 min
Vergüenza y respeto	Shame and Respect	Tomás Lipgot	Argentina	81 min
Hecho en Tejas Cine Las Americas presents “Hecho en Tejas,” a series of films shot and/or produced in Texas, to showcase the wide variety of work being produced in the state by filmmakers with varied backgrounds. Two features and six short films are scheduled during this year’s festival. For a seventh consecutive year, Cine Las Americas is pleased to count on a partnership with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) to present a jury award to the best “Hecho en Tejas” film.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Harbinger	Harbinger	Cody Duckworth	USA	94 min
Marisol	Marisol	Eugene Martin	USA	75 min
Ana con Elisio	Ana con Elisio	Lizette Barrera	USA	6 min
Dead Sites	Dead Sites	Jason Outenreath	USA	10 min
Get the Hell Out	Get the Hell Out	Comedia A Go-Go [CAGG], Jess Castro, Regan Arevalos, Larry Garza	USA	26 min
Ignition	Ignition	Sebastián Bisbal Rivas	USA	13 min
Just Flow	Just Flow	Tania Romero	USA	27 min
Squeezebox	Squeezebox	Sam Lerma	USA	21 min
Narrative Shorts Competition Cine Las Americas presents the narrative short film competition, which represents some of the most powerful and compelling work programmed at the festival, from the abstract to the realistic, the tragic to the romantic, and everything in between. These films will open for features throughout the festival, and are eligible for a jury award for Best Narrative Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
La mar estaba serena	The Sea Was Calm	Pablo Schulkin	Uruguay	8 min
Leche	Milk	Gabriella Moses	USA	13 min
Os Meninos do Rio	Children of the River	Javier Macipe	Portugal/Spain	14 min
Sirenas	Mermaids	Maryulis Alfonso	Cuba	20 min
Soñar el otro	Dreaming the Other	Abril Schmucler Iñiguez	Mexico	16 min
Documentary Shorts Competition Cine Las Americas presents the documentary short film competition, which includes some of the most powerful and compelling work programmed at the festival, representing individual and community topics and concerns in their contemporary contexts. These films will open for features throughout the festival, and are eligible for a jury award for Best Documentary Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Cuba’s Violin	Cuba’s Violin	Maya Albanese	Cuba/USA	18 min
Hasta que regrese	Until I Return	Luisa García	Peru	18 min
Libertad	Libertad	Brenda Avila-Hanna	USA	10 min
Maiden of Deception Pass: Guardian of Her Samish People	Maiden of Deception Pass: Guardian of Her Samish People	Tracy Rector, Lou Karsen	USA	27 min
Ojo salvaje	The Rate’s Cut	Paco Nicolás	Spain	15 min
Ambulante Showcase Cine Las Americas presents a special showcase in partnership with Ambulante, a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation. Each of the documentary films in this series tackles issues that resonate not only in Mexico, but also internationally. The films selected reflect both organizations’ missions, in particular, support of documentary filmmaking as a means to promote discourse around important contemporary issues.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Llévate mis amores	All of Me	Arturo González Villaseñor	Mexico	90 min
The Man Who Saw Too Much	The Man Who Saw Too Much	Trisha Ziff	Mexico	89 min
Official Selection Panorama Cine Las Americas presents a diverse array of important films, which we consider essential to share with Central Texas audiences. This year’s selection includes five documentary feature films and fourteen narrative and documentary short films. Collectively, the films represent innovative and independent filmmakers in compliment to the rest of the festival’s programs; they showcase a variety of traditionally underrepresented cultures and issues, personal experiences, new perspectives and aesthetic innovation.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99	2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99	Thirza Cuthand	Canada	5 min
Ayotzinapa: Crónica de un crimen de estado	Ayotzinapa: Chronicle  of a State Crime	Xavier Robles	Mexico	101 min
Chapa	The Grill Man	Fabio Montanari	Brazil	14 min
Discriminación	Discrimination	Yarlenis Aténcio, Analicia López, Jorge Caisamo, Ediliano Hernández, Vincente Peréz, Isac Dogiramá	Panama	5 min
Hija de la laguna	Daughter of the Lake	Ernesto Cabellos	Peru	88 min
Indivisible	Indivisible	Hilary Linder	USA	78 min
Katary	Stand Up	Esteban Lema	Venezuela/Ecuador	18 min
La verdad bajo la tierra. Guatemala, el genocidio silenciado	The Truth Beneath the Ground. Guatemala, the Silenced Genocide	Eva Vilmala, Miquel Dewever-Plana	Guatemala	60 min
Limpiadores	Limpiadores	Fernando L. González Mitjáns	United Kingdom	40 min
Make No Noise – The Story of a Skatepark	Make No Noise – The Story of a Skatepark	Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo	USA	80 min
Manna	Manna	D.E. Hyde	Belize	12 min
No estás soñando conmigo	You’re Not Dreaming With Me	Jorge Y.  Leyva Robles	Mexico	14 min
Normal	Normal	Vadim Lasca	Venezuela	17 min
O Pecado de Quem Nos Ama	The Sin of Those Who Love Us	Vasco de Oliveira	Portugal	30 min
Oscar	Oscar	Oscar Martínez Heredia, Lorenzo Shapiro	Mexico	3 min
Polski	Polski	Rubén Rojas Cuauhtemoc	Cuba	22 min
Stela	Stela	Ainhoa Menéndez	Spain	20 min
Todo lo demás	Everything Else	Federico Untermann	Spain	8 min
Tu p*** banco	Your F****** Bank	Jose Luis Santos Perez	Spain	13 min
Señorita Cinema Roadshow Cine Las Americas presents a special selection of ten Latina-directed short films curated by Señorita Cinema, an all Latina film festival based in Houston, Texas. Their roadshow selection showcases the best and most diverse of the last five editions of the festival, and aims to show the rich tapestry of different voices, styles, and ideas unique to the Latina experience.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
A Few Hundred Blows	A Few Hundred Blows	Iris Almaraz	USA	11 min
House Cleaning	House Cleaning	Julia Camara	USA	6 min
Mis quince	Mis quince	Brenda Cruz-Wolf	USA	12 min
OK Hello This Is Michael	OK Hello This Is Michael	Jessica Leza	USA	1 min
Paradise Exhaust	Paradise Exhaust	Stephanie Saint Sanchez	USA	11 min
Possessed by the Beat	Possessed by the Beat	Rachel Estrada	USA	6 min
Short Stop	Short Stop	Fanny Veliz, Risa Machuca	USA	18 min
The Moon Song of Assassination	The Moon Song of Assassination	Dolissa Medina	USA	7 min
Through the Water	Through the Water	Tonantzin Canestaro-Garcia	USA	6 min
Toñita se va de la casa	Toñita Runs Away	Terri Carson	USA	6 min
Music Videos Cine Las Americas presents a selection of sixteen music videos, representing diverse genres of music and filmmaking styles. The section includes a set of seven videos co-curated with the Austin Music Video Festival (AMVF), three out-of-competition videos, and six videos in competition; the competition selections are eligible for an audience award for Best Music Video.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
American Dreams	American Dreams	Diego Lozano	USA	6 min
Cycles of Existential Rhyme	Cycles of Existential Rhyme	Giovanni Solis	USA	5 min
Ego Altar	Ego Altar	Javier Antonio Avellan	USA	4 min
Ella	Her	Shireen Alihaji	USA	4 min
Frida’s Heart	Frida’s Heart	Executive Director: Daniela Riojas, Co-director: Laura Varela	USA	6 min
Haste que te encontre	Until I Found You	Olmeca	USA	4 min
Looking for Some Action	Looking for Some Action	AJ Vallejo	USA	4 min
Mel ge’ gi’ nut Epit	Strong Woman Song	Naomi Condo	Canada	5 min
Mi encuentro	Found	Angela Rosales Challis	Bolivia	4 min
Paris Trance	Paris Trance	Patricia Vonne	USA	3 min
Strut	Strut	Destiny Mata	USA	3 min
This Cannot Be	This Cannot Be	Michael Beserra	USA	5 min
Tomorrow	Tomorrow	CJ Vinson, Aaron Brown	USA	5 min
Trouble in Paradise	Trouble in Paradise	Tina Rivera	USA	3 min
Valle Moreno	Inland Empire	Deladeso, Jacbo Maschill	USA	5 min
Where I Live	Where I Live	Priscilla Villegas	USA	4 min
Emergencia Youth Film Festival Cine Las Americas presents the 2016 Emergencia Youth Film Festival. The program will open with a special program curated by Out Youth, a local non-profit organization that provides a variety of programs and services for youth in Central Texas. Following the Out Youth program, the Emergencia Youth Jury members will present the World Premiere of a Digital Den Studios production. Lastly, the Youth Jury will share the competition lineup with those in attendance; the films in competition are eligible for an audience award for Best Emergencia Youth Film. As a celebration of filmmakers on the rise, the Emergencia Youth Film Competition represents a special section of the festival showcasing works by filmmakers 19 years or younger. This year, the competition was curated by youth from Connally High School, which is located in the greater Austin area.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
A Place in the Middle	A Place in the Middle	Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson	USA	24 min
Alluvium	Alluvium	Ruda Santos	London, UK	4 min
Camping Trip	Camping Trip	Audrey Larson	MA, USA	6 min
Domar: To Tame	Domar: To Tame	Benjamin Ades	Uruguay	7 min
Drawing Inspiration	Drawing Inspiration	Audrey Larson, Shay Martin	MA, USA	4 min
El Levantamiento de los Muertos	El Levantamiento de los Muertos	Miguel Salazar	San Antonio, TX, USA	2 min
Everything Has Its Time	Everything Has Its Time	Marylys Merida	Lynn, MA, USA	6 min
I Don’t Need U	I Don’t Need U	Alyssa Peguero	Lynn, MA, USA	4 min
Letters	Letters	Nick Fichter	Austin, TX, USA	5 min
Lilly Gets a Pet	Lilly Gets a Pet	The Bum Family	Alberta, Canada	5 min
Listen	Listen	Julianne Evangelista, Violet Lam	Austin, TX, USA	11 min
Lorena	Lorena	Tony Trevino	Coahuila, Mexico	3 min
O Cabeçudo	The Big-Headed Boy	Nelson Fernandes	Portugal	9 min
The Race	The Race	Austin Film Society Film Club	Austin, TX, USA	2 min
The Storm	The Storm	Tyla Levesque, Yunior Crispin, Daymian Mejia	Lynn, MA, USA	5 min
Trees Count	Trees Count	Maximilian Shatan	New York City, NY, USA	4 min
What I Never Told Her	What I Never Told Her	Theo Moers	USA	9 min
What’s the First Step	What’s the First Step	Ayanna Marte	Lynn, MA, USA	6 min
Wiikwemkoong Mide-Dabaan	Oil Wells of Wikwemikong	Leo Peltier	Montréal, QC, Canada	5 min
You Are Not Alone	You Are Not Alone	Adolfo Jimenez	NY, USA	3 min
You’re Dead to Me	You’re Dead to Me	Wu Tsang	USA	13 min